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Delbert Mann has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1970s.
Recurring themes

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1967
Drama · Romance

The Quiet Man
1952
Romance · Comedy

The Apartment
1960
Comedy · Drama

Paris Can Wait
2016
Comedy · Drama

The Noel Diary
2022
Romance · Comedy

The Giant Mechanical Man
2012
Comedy · Drama

Antoine and Colette
1962
Romance · Drama

The Life List
2025
Romance · Comedy

Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother, is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward, he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood. He then meets Clara, an unattractive school teacher. Realising their emotional connection, Marty promises to call, but family and friends try to convince him not to.
Dir. Delbert Mann · With Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti

Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods. After he steals a client out from under her cute little nose, revenge prompts her to infiltrate his secret "VIP" campaign in order to persuade the mystery product’s scientist to switch to her firm.
Dir. Delbert Mann · With Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall

The lives of a disparate group of unfulfilled people converge at a small, seaside English hotel.
Dir. Delbert Mann · With Deborah Kerr, Rita Hayworth, David Niven

Cathy Timberlake is en route to a job interview when a car transporting businessman Philip Shayne covers her in mud. He sends his assistant, Roger, to apologize, but upon meeting Cathy, Roger knows that she would be a suitable match for his boss. Despite their mutual attraction, Cathy and Philip want different things. Philip wants a fling, while Cathy wants a marriage. As they travel to exotic locales, their differing motivations are put to the test.
Dir. Delbert Mann · With Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young

At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors of war soon become too much to bear, and as his friends die or become gravely wounded, Paul questions the sanity of fighting over a few hundreds yards of war-torn countryside.
Dir. Delbert Mann · With Richard Thomas, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence